X11 file locations

Stuart Anderson anderson at metrolink.com
Wed Mar 17 05:44:31 PST 1999


On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Robert Current wrote:

> Speaking of X and standards, runlevel 3 in Debian is xdm, but it's 5 in
> redhat, what's it in default XFree86?  And that should probably be
> standardized(?)

XFree86 provides xdm, but not the method for starting it. If you dig
deep enough into the docs, there is a suggestion to use /etc/inittab
to start it, but I don't think that any of the distributions are really
doing it that way.



                                Stuart

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